]]>Comment on Senator Warren Seeks Input on Climate Change by Stephen Williamshttp://nuclearprogress.org/senator-warren-seeks-input-on-climate-change/#comment-271
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 01:38:06 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=90#comment-271I posted something similar (but didn’t save a copy) and mentioned the open letter from climate scientists with regard to next-generation nuclear power. I also mentioned developing nations and that cheap energy is the only realistic way to get to grow quickly without using fossil fuels. Finally, I mentioned my favorite next-generation nuclear power–LFTRs–and the fact that China has made LFTRs one of their top five priorities for technological advance, and that they will likely have a working LFTR prototype in just a few years.

I hope more people reply to Warren with information about the importance of nuclear power.

]]>Comment on Yellow Journalism from a “Green” Source by Eric Schmitzhttp://nuclearprogress.org/yellow-journalism-from-a-green-source/#comment-270
Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:04:53 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=76#comment-270I could stand to do a lot more work, James, but thanks! 🙂

There does seem to be almost complete radio silence regarding the massive amount of debris, with F. D. as a diversionary scapegoat. I suspect that Les has covered at least some of whatever press there has been. Should go look through his archives again.

(On another note, I’ve been trying to figure out why I titled this post the way I did. TRN isn’t really a “green” media source, and neither is S&S. I have a feeling that I was thinking of the person/people who had shared it on FB. I don’t remember exactly who that was, but it was very likely an anti-nuclear “green” friend of mine.)

]]>Comment on Yellow Journalism from a “Green” Source by James Greenidgehttp://nuclearprogress.org/yellow-journalism-from-a-green-source/#comment-269
Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:54:41 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=76#comment-269Good article — and very disturbing!

I’ve yet to hear of any Japanese or U.N. research or investigation of the health effects from the tunami’s widespread toxic brew backwash seeping into groundwater and crop soil there! Are the Japanese public being kept in the dark by chasing straw dogs like Fukushima?

Keep up the good work!

James Greenidge

]]>Comment on When Should Nuclear Power Plants Die? – Forbes by James Greenidgehttp://nuclearprogress.org/when-should-nuclear-power-plants-die-forbes/#comment-122
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:10:47 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=65#comment-122Thanks for this head’s up!

More should be concentrated, along with long overdue public nuclear education, on examining media’s blatantly uneven role in reporting nuclear energy events.

James Greenidge
Queens NY

]]>Comment on On Slow Progress and Trust by EntrepreNukehttp://nuclearprogress.org/on-slow-progress-and-trust/#comment-121
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:43:45 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=63#comment-121As one of those engineers, I must say that I fully concur with your post here, Eric.
]]>Comment on The IPCC Report and Nuclear Energy | The Nation by Eric Schmitzhttp://nuclearprogress.org/the-ipcc-report-and-nuclear-energy-the-nation/#comment-86
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:58:19 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=59#comment-86Thank you, James! I have always appreciated reading your comments at ANS Cafe and other blogs. 🙂

Indeed, coverage of the non-Fukushima related aspects of the disaster in Japan has been dismal. I saw another video last week of the tsunami surge coming in and devastating an urban area. I didn’t plan to spend 25 minutes watching it, but I found myself unable to stop. As I watched, I realized that this was just one small place, and that the same thing had happened over a vast area and in dozens if not hundreds of similar towns and cities. The mass of debris carried along by that unstoppable force was just mind-boggling. Later in that video, buildings could be seen burning out of control, thick black smoke pouring into the air. And to think that the same thing was happening all over the entire region!

But that was one video that went semi-viral on Facebook for a couple of days. How many alarming articles about the groundwater have I seen shared on social media in the past few days? How many times have I seen that NOAA image (of the tsunami wave heights at various points in the Pacific), presented as if it were a map of radiation concentrations from “highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean”? I cannot begin to count. Part of me wants to ignore them, but then a more responsible part remembers Meredith’s words from a couple days ago: “Sometimes we have to answer.”

]]>Comment on The IPCC Report and Nuclear Energy | The Nation by James Greenidgehttp://nuclearprogress.org/the-ipcc-report-and-nuclear-energy-the-nation/#comment-85
Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:29:19 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=59#comment-85I wish your excellent blog a long and educational life!

Re: “..the groundwater situation at Fukushima, for example. But that’s the subject of another diary, which I hope to write this weekend.”

The unpublicized low “risk” of _decaying_ radioactive Fukushima water harming anyone from seeping into the local water tables _pales_ compared to the contamination causd by the churning toxic brew of raw sewage and industrial chemicals to garbage and pulverized buildings and cemetry remains swept far inland by the tsunami and which has soaked and percolated into the soil in the whole coastal region. Even U.N. doctors are wondering why Japan isn’t citing any med studies or examination on this. Why? Hiding a far greater health/environmental hazard behind the skirts of Fukushima?

James Greenidge
Queens NY

]]>Comment on The Breakthrough Institute – Liberals and Progressives for Nuclear by Eric Schmitzhttp://nuclearprogress.org/the-breakthrough-institute-liberals-and-progressives-for-nuclear/#comment-75
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:46:04 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=49#comment-75Yes! Thank you for your comment, David! And for the reference to your own blog, which I will definitely start reading (and will add to my blogroll here).

-Eric

]]>Comment on The Breakthrough Institute – Liberals and Progressives for Nuclear by David Waltershttp://nuclearprogress.org/the-breakthrough-institute-liberals-and-progressives-for-nuclear/#comment-74
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:40:47 +0000http://nuclearprogress.org/?p=49#comment-74Great to see, Eric! The number of people to the “left of center” who support nuclear is actually much bigger but they are generally a ‘silent’ minority give the problems of politically correct social behavior infecting most of the Left.

These activists are slowly coming out of miasma of Green politics to raise a ruckus and being the voice of dissent on places like Huffington Post, the Daily Kos (two nuclear power groups there, one in general and on in support of LFTR), Democratic Underground and various lists like the Green Left Weekly list on Yahoo. The point for progressives is to take what is a pro-working class solution for climate change to the movements for social change, Occupy, the labor unions and civil rights organizations.